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My favorite obscure line of TCL: https://github.com/athas/EggsML/blob/master/concieggs/hooks/channel_message/40regex#L25 https://github.com/athas/EggsML/blob/m

by sshine 2y ago

My favorite obscure line of TCL: https://github.com/athas/EggsML/blob/master/concieggs/hooks/channel_message/40regex#L25 https://github.com/athas/EggsML/blob/master/concieggs/hooks/... A line that contains a regex pattern for matching regex patterns. TCL was chosen here because its regex engine isn't too powerful.

stackghost 2y ago
>TCL was chosen here because its regex engine isn't too powerful. Uh, not sure I see the significance but wouldn't that make Tcl less apt for this than something else? Why would you purposely choose a less powerful regex engine?
- sshine 2y ago
  When you feed the engine regexes supplied by users, you don’t want arbitrary code execution or exponential or infinite running times caused by obscure features.